How will Joe Biden GOVERN? General Biden Administration F**kery Thread

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By Seung Min Kim and Tyler Pager

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...804a3a-1108-11ec-a511-cb913c7e5ba0_story.html


How are things going with Biden?

Saw this headline and thought I would check.
Performative outrage really. This position has only had one confirmed director since it became a senate confirmed position 15 years ago.

Ironically,

Soon after retiring from a three-decade career in law enforcement, David Chipman used his first op-ed as a private citizen to advocate for an unusual cause: Senate confirmation of the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Biden can effectively use the vacancies act to appoint who he likes and rotate them out until the senate confirms someone. He can force there hand.
 

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Performative outrage really. This position has only had one confirmed director since it became a senate confirmed position 15 years ago.

Ironically,



Biden can effectively use the vacancies act to appoint who he likes and rotate them out until the senate confirms someone. He can force there hand.
I suppose that is what I wondered, at this stage why does Biden give a fukk about the faux outrage? Is he the best person for the job or not?
 

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I suppose that is what I wondered, at this stage why does Biden give a fukk about the faux outrage? Is he the best person for the job or not?
He's the person elected to do the job. And he should do the job he's elected to.

In this case he's doing that. He's nominated someone for a position they have to be confirmed for. They weren't, so he's picking someone else.

People keep pining for this mythical strongman president that was able to push through everything they want, but that's not how it work, nor how it should be in a functional democracy.

That said, if Schumer and dems feel like they aren't getting things done THEY were elected to do as lawmakers, THEY should fix those hurdles.

From my standpoint, the most sober take is almost every president attempts to push through what they campaigned on and more times than not they meet resistance in the senate/house. Those are the checks and balances put into place by design.

I will say however the Senate is functionally broken in that it's limiting its own ability to carry out its constitutional duties via the filibuster. They should remove it and let the chips fall where they may.
:yeshrug:
 

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From my standpoint, the most sober take is almost every president attempts to push through what they campaigned on and more times than not they meet resistance in the senate/house. Those are the checks and balances put into place by design.

I will say however the Senate is functionally broken in that it's limiting its own ability to carry out its constitutional duties via the filibuster. They should remove it and let the chips fall where they may.
:yeshrug:

All of this.
 
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